Vocabulary

celebration; congratulations

appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence

exhibiting; showing; putting on display; putting up for sale; entering (a work into a competition); submitting

circulation; rotation; cycle; loop

shield; buckler; escutcheon

order; turn

treatment (of a person); dealing with

edged tool; cutting instrument; knife

hydrogen (H)

water; liquid; fluid; moisture; humidity; sap

Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)

post-natal; since birth

ecology; life and habits (of an animal)

customs; customs house

point of tangency; point of contact

tongue

specialist shop; shop specializing in a particular type of product

underwear; undergarment; underclothes; lingerie

approval; adoption (of a motion, bill, etc.); passage

house; building

earnings

circuit

repair; improvement

opening a business; opening a practice

reclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation; development

shellfish

external angle; exterior angle

foreign travel

outline; summary; overview; synopsis; abstract; abridgment

expansion; extension; enlargement

core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel

isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine

scholarly ability; scholarship; knowledge; literary ability

light weight

artist

decisive battle; deciding match; play-off

ending; conclusion

health insurance

fighting bravely; strenuous efforts

kendo; Japanese martial art using bamboo swords